- “The sheets were frozen hard, and they cut the naked hand;
The decks were like a slide, where a seaman scarce could stand.” - “And O the wicked fool I seemed, in every kind of way,
To be here and hauling frozen ropes on blessèd Christmas Day.” - “But all that I could think of, in the darkness and the cold,
Was just that I was leaving home and my folks were growing old.”
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